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Instability (def.)

Lack of resistance to sudden change or deterioration

{no safety net}

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What causes community economic instability?

Income gap• Talked about and

widely understood• Continues to grow

Wealth gap• ‘Safety net’ • Not as widely

understood• Continues to grow


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Community health indicators all tied to economic resiliency

Health

Education

CrimeUnemployment


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For healthy communities we must address the resiliency of the local economy

Jobs + wealththat

STAY in the community


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Why wealth?

HAVE’SHave resiliency, financial and otherwise

HAVE-NOT’STeeter on the edge with little or no safety net


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Financial resiliencyOpportunity

GrowthSafety net

More than enough

None

HAVE’SHAVE-NOT’S

We need to slow the increasing disparity of wealth


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How can we turn the tide?


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By developing

Businesseswithin communitiesthat are employee-ownedthat will scale


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We will break the cycle of poverty at the community level


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By enabling


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Stability within the immediate family

{stable job}{wealth through equity}


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Stability within the extended family

{stable relatives}{with wealth}


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Stability within the community

{stable families}{role models}{cross-generational}


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It’s about more than JUST opportunity for individuals


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Through reducing communities’ financial dependency on external factors over which they have no control


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Communities (re) gain self-determination


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And all of the opportunities that come with it


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project equity's goals

Government & Nonprofit